Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Subway Yearbook

For our latest Improv Everywhere mission, we set up a photo studio in a random subway car and announced that we were taking subway yearbook photos!

The subway became pretty packed at one point,but it was all full of smiles!People on the train were more than happy to pose for our yearbook.This woman was looking in our mirror to make sure her hair looked nice for the photo.Even a newborn baby was in it!It was exciting to put all the photos together to see how diverse the New York subway riders are.

It was so nice to see everyone on the train laughing and having fun rather than ignoring each other like usual. It was the kind of moment that made me walk away with those tingly little butterflies in my stomach.

these improv everywhere missions are so awesome! it's such a cool experience for the random people involved to walk away with, knowing (or not?) that they were part of something completely unique & special. (which makes me even more sad that i missed the mp3 experiment when it was in chicago last year!)

your blog is great. i think you should change your job title to "smile maker." it would look pretty cool on business cards.

What a fantastic idea!! I admit if I rode the subway every day, I'd probably be one of the people ignoring everyone else and wishing I was somewhere else. You made everyone's subway ride lots of fun and something to remember :-)

you TOTALLY have to print a copy of that and post it on the subday train. odds are most of those people are on the same car each day and would get a big kick out of seeing the finished product! or you could even just post it on the wall outside of the subway platform so more chance of the same people posibly seeing it! brilliant. you could do an interesting experiment and pick the same subway car each week or month and see how the faces change (or don't change) over time.